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By CELEAN JACOBSON Associated Press Writer June 20, 2002, 8:23 PM EDT JERUSALEM -- Hours before her death in a suicide attack, 5-year-old Gal Eizenman was jumping around, a blond bundle of joy at a children's musical performance organized by her grandmother Noah Alon, 59. A videotape of the occasion shows the two of them happy and dancing. Later, the tape was used to give details of what Gal and her grandmother were wearing so their bodies could be identified. The two were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop in northern Jerusalem...

Hitting the wires in Latin America: Abu Sabaya, the leader of Abu Sayyaf and the one responsible for taking 2 American hostages has died in a gun battle with the Philippine army

Today, at about noon, when I opened my homepage of http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/browse?ao=1 , I noticed that the website was NOT fitting my browser window (IE 6.026). The page is larger, horizontally, than my laptop window. I have never had this problem before. Nor do I have this problem with other FR windows, ie. BROWSE, REVIEW, or threads that I open to read. I have not changed any formatting or font size. I lose my right sidebar when I want to read the thread titles and intro, and when I scroll to the right to see my sidebar, lose about have the...

"Authorities were warned several times in the two months before Timothy McVeigh struck Oklahoma City in 1995 that Islamic-backed terrorists were planning to bomb a government building," the Associated Press reported today. The information was never linked to McVeigh but led Bill Clinton's administration to urge increased security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, says AP, quoting documents it obtained. "The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with concrete barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah building on April 19, 1995, officials said." Muslim terrorists are determined to "strike...

FBI officials fear that the arrest of Jose Padilla, the US-born terror suspect, may be a signal for other Al Qaeda operatives to stage attacksPadilla who also used the name Abdullah al-Mujahir, walked knowingly into the hands of federal authorities at Chicago's International airport five weeks ago.The FBI strongly suspects Padilla knew he was being tailed before his arrest. Many seats around him on the Swiss International Airlines Flight from Zurich to Chicago were taken by agents of the FBI and Swiss Intelligence. But before that, officials believe Padilla was tipped off that he was being followed after agents approached...

Senate leaders reached a short-term understanding this week on moving the confirmations of more than a dozen judges and a Democratic nominee to the Federal Communications Commission. But Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.) said the final seal of approval on the deal was not likely to come until later this week, when he plans to speak with White House officials regarding the procedures the chamber will adopt to handle the contentious nominations. "We had a good conversation with Senator Lott yesterday," Daschle said Wednesday, referring to Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), "but we want to have a conversation with...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/75332_fill20.shtml Man kept in jail after Kool-Aid bomb blows up his truck Thursday, June 20, 2002 By LINDA ASHTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YAKIMA -- A man who said he was experimenting with a Kool-Aid-containing explosive compound for homemade fireworks when his truck blew up will remain in jail pending a federal grand jury investigation. Thomas R. Webster, 45, of Yakima, was ordered held without bail yesterday by federal Magistrate Lonny Suko. A federal criminal complaint alleges that Webster was in possession of an unregistered destructive device when officers from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and...

Woman Pleads Innocent in Colo. FireForest Service Employee Pleads Innocent in Colorado Wildfire; Bail Set at $600,000  The Associated Press   D E N V E R, June 20 — U.S. Forest Service employee Terry Barton pleaded innocent Thursday to charges she set the biggest wildfire in Colorado history. A judge set bail at $600,000, but ordered Barton not to leave the state or enter a forest. She did not immediately post bond. Barton, 38, was dry-eyed as she entered the plea. But after Thursday's hearing got under way, she wiped away tears and reached for a tissue as witnesses...

James S. Brady Briefing Room 12:20 P.M. EDT MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon. Let me give you a report on the President's day, and I have two items I want to fill you in on, as well. The President began this morning with a CIA briefing, followed by his FBI briefing. And then the President toured and made remarks at the White House Fitness Expo, where he urged Americans to exercise more regularly as part of an ongoing, lifelong effort, which also is good for people's health care. The President then dropped by a meeting with the President-elect of Colombia --...

The New Nazis Steve Malzberg Tuesday, June 18, 2002 When I wander into the entrance of Jerusalem, I turn into a suicide warrior, I turn into a suicide warrior, in battle dress, in battle dress, in battle dress. Thank you. – an 8-year-old girl shown on Palestinian TV on a show considered to be equal to our "Sesame Street" Currently there are 19 dead (I never include the bomber along with his victims) and over 40 wounded. Many are children. The bus was packed with students. That's precisely why it was targeted. The goal of these subhuman monsters is primarily...

Presidential reprimand moves representatives to action NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON, June 20 — The chairmen of a joint congressional committee investigating pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures said Thursday they have asked the attorney general to investigate possible leaks of classified information by the panel. • Yellow Pages • Auctions at uBid • Personals Channel • Professional Tips • Newsletters • Shopping • Profiles of suspects; leads being followed “WE WILL cooperate with the FBI in any way possible” while the Justice Department and the FBI investigate if or how such leaks occurred, said Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of...

Great Ann Coulter Quote "...One hundred percent of the successful terrorist attacks on commercial airlines for 20 years have been committed by Arabs. When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called a 'description of the suspect...."

The American Flag – in Poor Taste We're still tracking down the details of the story about the Hope Lodge and Emory University. Hope Lodge is a residence for cancer patients near the Emory Hospital. We're told that the people who run the Hope Lodge wanted to fly an American flag. They were evidently told by university officials that they could not because the flag might "offend" foreign students on the campus. I've heard more from some of the people involved. Could it be that the director of the Hope Lodge really has a document from the Emory folks telling...

You should now be able to toggle word wrap on and off in the post reply window. I will add similar functionality to post_article as soon as possible.

The California Air Resources Board will consider amending the state's air quality standards for dangerous microscopic pollutants to make them the world's strictest. But it could be at least a decade before technology allows those standards to be met. The revised standards to be considered Thursday target a class of pollutants made up of particles of soot and dust one-seventh the diameter of a human hair or smaller. The material comes from a variety of sources, including combustion in cars and power plants, and can contain heavy metals that contribute to lung, heart and other health problems. In recent years,...

Defending our 'Freedoms'by Harry BrowneMay 23, 2002We are told over and over again that the terrorists aren't upset with American foreign policy; it's our freedoms they can't stand. They want to destroy us because we're free.Unfortunately, those who say this don't spell out the particular freedoms that the terrorists are upset about. Is it our freedom to divert 47% of our national income to taxes collected by the federal, state, and local governments? Is it the freedom of senior citizens to have life-and-death decisions on medical tests and treatments made by faceless Medicare bureaucrats — who have the power to...

Bush to Propose Another $100 Million Over Five Years for Education in Africa By Jennifer Loven Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Ahead of a summit of industrialized nations intended to focus on the plight of sub-Saharan Africa, President Bush says America should spend $20 million more a year on education there and will visit the continent next year. Though the proposed spending boost would double the government's investment on an education initiative in Africa, the $200 million total was deemed modest by critics. The World Bank has estimated that wealthy donor countries will need to commit between $3 billion...

PARIS: Member states from Nato and its Partnership for Peace programme will participate in more than two weeks of war games in the Romanian port of Constanta starting on Friday, the French defense ministry said. The exercise, codenamed Cooperative Partner, is aimed at promoting transparency and cooperation between Nato and its non-member partners as well as the "democratisation of armed forces" in Partnership for Peace countries. Nato member states participating in the exercise -- due to end on July 6 -- include France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Turkey and the United States. Non-Nato participants include Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, host country Romania,...

(Groton-WTNH, June 20, 2002 Updated 7:02 PM ) _ A report of something falling from a plane into a reservoir sent state police and the FBI into action Thursday afternoon. State Trooper Roger Beaupre tells News Channel 8 a person called the state police barracks in Montville and reported seeing something either falling or being thrown from a plane into the Groton Reservoir around 2:45 p.m. A team from the FBI, as well as state and local police and the Department of Environmental Protection is on the scene. News Channel 8 staff member Bryan Lee says the police helicopter Trooper...

. . . The basic principal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupil. That would be “undemocratic”. . . .Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially dept back, because the others would get a trauma . . .by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s attempts to spell out...